The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1887-09-15


facie evidence Of Intentional fraud.
If any person orders his paper discontinued. he
all 9p
lect the whole amount whether the paperis taken
from the office or not.
When Jim Hill headed the great
Manitoba system toward southeastern
Dakota the people Of Sioux City did
not like the appearance of things.
They knew that Hill wanted to
build to Denver, and they were an
xious to have him cross the Missouri
river at Sioux City. The business
men of the latter city combined to-
gether and put corps of surveyors on
the road. They found a feasible route
between Sioux City and Denver, and
then put their surveyors at work on a
route between Sioux City and Mar
shall, Mimi, hoping to there head off
the Manitoba and steer them down to
the city of great promise in north
western Iowa. j. T. Mcintyre was
chief engineer of this corps. But the
heading off plan did not work. The
Manitoba disregarded the survey and
went on to Sioux Falls.
But now Sioux City people are on
another tack. They, also, are people
who win. They propose to connect
with the great Manitoba system, and
to assist them in the work will have
quarter of million dollar tax from
Sioux City alone. They want the
shortest line to Duluth, and expect to
ultimately make such road the grand
trunk line to Denver and the western
coast. The old plan was to run to
Ierton, Sioux county, thence north,
crossing the Milwaukee road about
eighteen miles east of Canton and on
to Marshall. But Mayof Thorsoh and
Delegate Clifford have put a flea in
the ears of the Sioux City railroad
committee, and the plan now is to run
form Siohx City north to Ierton;
thence northwest to Canton, and on to
a connection with the Manitoba at
Brandon, Minn., about nine miles east
of Sioux Falls. This line would be
twenty-five miles shorter than the.
Marshall plan.
Engineer Mcintyre came up from
Sioux City Monday, and in the eevening
public railroad meeting was held at
the cour. house. Delegate Clifford
was chosen chairman of the gathering,
which was held for the propose of
raising money for securing profile of
the proposed line, from Brandon down
through Canton and on to Ireton. A
committee, consisting of Mayor Thor
son, VIM. NJ. Cuppett, VIM. Fowler,
John w. Hewitt and r. H. Hichborn,
was appointed to raise the money for
the survey. Monday Mr.. Clifford ac-
companied Engineer Mcintyre over the
proposed route to Ireton, and corps
of surveyors will Immediately proceed
to run the lines.
The Manitoba system will shortly be
the most powerful in the world. The
Sioux City Journal, which in behalf of
its city is strikingly interested in Sc
curing the connection, enables us to
give a comprehensive diagram of the
plans of Hill and his hackers. AS the
Journal says, the railroad develop
ments in Dakota during g the past few
weeks have been of a marked charac-
ter. The central portions of the terri
tory are witnessing an activity in rail
road building certainly never surpass-
ed. Several hidden movements of
great railroad corporations have been
revealed, and the "paper" companies
through which they were operating
are no longer thought to be such.
The most notable movements, start
ling to the other corporations, are
those of the Manitoba company, guild
ed by ]. J. Hill. One year ago that
company did not occupy a foot of the
soil of South or central Dakota. To-
day it is operating a line to Aberdeen
in Brown county, and is surveying and
making all the necessary preparations
for speedy extension of its Aberdeen
line to Pierre, or to the Missouri in
the region of Pierre. 1t is also operat-
ing another line to Watertown, point
ITO miles southeast of Aberdeen.
And the grading of the Manitoba line
from Watertown southwest-now 60
ing Onto central southern Dakota,
or the region of Huron, Woonsocket
and Mitchell, presents an activity not
often seen in the history of modern
railroad building even, 1900 teams
passing through Watertown in two
or three days to work on the south
west extension. All of the prelimi-
nary arrangements for grading on that
road were conducted in the name of a
local company organized at Water
town three years ago, in which the
people had come to have little conf.
dence. But when 1000 teams went to
grading the identity of the road could
no longer be concealed. Besides these
two lines Of the Manitoba, another is
being built from Willmar, Mimi, by
way of Marshall, Mimi, to the region
of Sioux Falls. That line, also, will be
built more speedily than the Water
town line to Huron. Those three
trunk lines of Mr.. Hills company, en-
tering South Dakota at Aberdeen,
Watertown and Sioux Falls, and tray-
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